Designed by MIRO architects, the starting point for their Klaksvik City Center proposal kept with the language of the genesis of urban nuclei: the form is inherited from the land, shaped by the surroundings as well as the needs and functions that are to be hosted in its nest. This also involved morphing to fit its context as well as accommodate for a plenitude of public spaces. The shape of the new core is based off of a landfill on the bottom of the bay. Even if it is possibly a random shape, it represents a fundamental step in the history of the town: the creation of the tunnel to southern islands. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Many of the most fascinating urban sceneries that we inherited from the past owe their shape to the functional, infrastructural or defensive needs of their populations combined with the features and the morphology of the territory where they grew up. It’s an accidental mix of external factors that gave them a unique personality destined to survive to all the changes imposed by their often long and troubled stories.
